[HEADS-UP] MySQL 5.5 coming soon to rawhide

[Tom Lane]

Orcan Ogetbil <oget.fedora at gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> For now I'll include a symlink libmysqlclient_r.so -> libmysqlclient.so,
>> so that a simple rebuild with no source-code changes should be
>> sufficient. Â Eventually we'll probably want to fix the source code to
>> not refer to libmysqlclient_r, but that might take awhile if upstreams
>> are worried about portability.

> With the above change, is it reasonable to assume that the mysql5.5
> package will not be backwards compatible? In other words, if I build
> some software against mysql5.5, can't I use it against mysql5.1 ?

If you're building it against libmysqlclient_r, yes you'll have an
issue, but ISTM you're likely to have other issues anyway if you expect
ABI compatibility in that direction.

			regards, tom lane